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Morning Roundup: 10 steps to creating a book based on your blog

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:18 +0000

10 Steps to Creating a Book Based on Your Blog (Media Shift) I recently self-published an e-book based on my blog, and I want to share what I learned. This post focuses on the editorial process; in subsequent posts, I’ll share tips on coming up with a design for your e-book cover, choosing a publishing platform (I went with Kindle, [...]

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3 Author Blogs Every Writer Should Read

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:18 +0000

One of the best ways to learn as a writer is to study the work of other writers. And one of the best ways to learn as an entrepreneur is to study other entrepreneurs. So who should you learn from if you are an author who wants to not just write, but sell? Here are [...]

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Morning Roundup: 13 lessons learned from taking our college newspaper digital

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:08:14 +0000

13 Lessons from Killing Our College Daily Newspaper and Going Digital (Media Shift) In the seven months since that party, the Revolution has worked in most of the ways we can measure. But we also see flaws yet to be fixed and lessons yet to be learned from our college peers. Here’s more on the results, [...]

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Are E-Book Sales Declining in Canada?

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:03 +0000

An interesting report is circulating the book blogs, alleging that e-book sales in Canada are down almost five percent. I’ve seen reporting on the Booknet Canada report on at least 3 blogs (for example, here and here and here, but nobody seems quite sure what to make of it. We’re selling lots and lots of devices here in Canada, aren’t we? We’re Kobo’s [...]

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Morning Roundup: Apple turns a pale shade of red

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:15:39 +0000

Apple Deems 55 Digital Comics too Hot for in-App Buying (Good e-Reader) On Tuesday, comiXology announced, via its blog, that several comics had been removed from the apps “In order to comply with the Apple App Store guidelines regarding adult or inappropriate content, some new releases were rejected for our iOS app this week. In [...]

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Morning Roundup: Digital Book Signings, Copyright Reform

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:59 +0000

Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets in eBook Trial (Publisher’s Weekly) Amazon attorneys last week filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for the upcoming Apple price-fixing trial. — CourseSmart Enhances its eTextbook Offerings (Good e-Reader) With some reports [...]

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Rob Ford, Crack Cocaine, and Editorial Responsibility in the Days of Instant News

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:08 +0000

In my grandfather’s day, if you saw it on the front page of the newspaper, it must be true. My, how times have changed! A bizarre story is gripping my city this week, and nobody knows if it’s true or if it isn’t. The fact that somebody told it to somebody else is news enough! [...]

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Morning Links: DPLA, Boredom, Web Giants and Digital Kids

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:41 +0000

Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access (Media Shift) Why would anyone want to attend a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual repository of metadata? A better question might be — what is a virtual repository of metadata? — The Web Giants Are Rising Above Humans and Their Petty Rules, and [...]

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Morning Links: Digital Signings, Book Discovery, Online Degrees

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:13:44 +0000

Are We in a Rut? Explaining the Increasing Homogenization of Scholarly & Scientific Publishing (Scholarly Kitchen) When the Internet stormed onto the scene, all bets were off — this revolutionary technology with limitless potential would generate all sorts of creativity, from new article presentations, new forms of peer review, new capabilities, and an end to [...]

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Toronto Star Recognized for Success in E-Book Experiment

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:49 +0000

I wrote previously about Star Dispatches, an e-book subscription service being produced by the Toronto Star. According to this article on The Star‘s website, they’re being recognized for this series with two Online Media Awards. The service has an intriguing set-up where, for a nominal fee, subscribers get a new e-book sent to them every week. [...]

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Morning Links: New E-Paper Technology, New Bookstats Report

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:10 +0000

The Real Costs of Publishing a Book (Media Shift) At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: “How much will self-publishing really cost me?” — New Bookstats Report Shows Spectacular Growth of eBook Market Since 2008 (The Digital Reader) The American Association of Publishers announced their latest [...]

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Pottermore’s Winning Digital Publishing Strategy

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:31 +0000

Futurebook is reporting that Pottermore, JK Rowling’s portal for all things Harry Potter, was a big winner at The Bookseller Industry Awards. As author Philip Jones explains, the thrust of the message they are hearing now is that there is no longer such a thing as ‘digital strategy.’ It’s all just strategy now. So, what do [...]

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Morning Links: Amazon Acquires Liquivista, OverDrive Unveils Big Library Read

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:52:09 +0000

‘Unbundling’ in the Book Business: The Fourth Big Trend (Shatzkin Files) A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. eBook Spending on the Rise (Digital Book World) In 2012 ebooks accounted for 11% of all book spending, according to a recap [...]

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Morning Links: What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:01:27 +0000

What News Organizations are Learning from their eBook Efforts (Poynter) News organizations have responded to changes in readers’ habits by moving beyond the newsstand and toward the bookshelf, zeroing in on ebooks as a new revenue source and a way to explore genres not typically found on front pages or home pages. Back to the [...]

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When Data Aggregation is a Good Thing

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:27:29 +0000

There have been a lot of stories lately about government attempts to increasingly lock down data rather than letting it open up—in Canada, Bill C-11 granted users a host of new rights and then negated them all with its digital locks provisions; in the U.S., the president himself had to weigh in on the issue [...]

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